Phil Hall (born 1953 in Lindsay,

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) is a

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Education

Hall holds a

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from the

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Career

Phil Hall started Flat Singles Press, producing broadsides & chapbooks, when he was an undergraduate studying drama and English at the University of Windsor. After graduating with an MA in 1978, he lived in Vancouver, where he was a member of the Vancouver Industrial Writers' Union and the Vancouver Men Against Rape Collective. In the late 80s he often wrote reviews of poetry and children's literature for

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, and was the Literary Editor for

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. He also edited (with Andrew Vaisius) a short-lived journal called ''Don't Quit Yr Day-Job''. Hall has taught

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and

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, Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University),

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and

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. He has been writer-in-residence at the

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, the

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, Queen's University, the

, the

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, The Sage Hill Writing Experience, the

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House, and the

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. In 2011, he won Canada's

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for Poetry in English for his collection, ''Killdeer'', a work the jury called "a masterly modulation of the elegiac through poetic time."Governor General's Literary Awardsu, 2011
''Killdeer'' also won the 2012

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, and was shortlisted for the 2012 Canadian

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. That was his second Griffin nomination; in 2006 his book An Oak Hunch was also nominated. ''Trouble Sleeping'', his 2000 collection, was nominated for a

. ''Niagara & Government'' was shortlisted for the

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for poetry in 2021.

Bibliography

* ''Eighteen Poems'' (Cyanamid, 1973) * ''Homes'' (Black Moss, 1979) * ''A Minor Operation'' (blewointment, 1983) * ''Why I Haven't Written'' (Brick Books, 1985) * ''Old Enemy Juice'' (Quarry Press, 1988) * ''Amanuensis'' (Brick Books, 1989) * ''The Unsaid'' (Brick Books, 1992) Phil Hall – Brick Books
* ''Hearthedral: A Folk-Hermetic'' (Brick Books, 1996) * ''Trouble Sleeping'' (Brick Books, 2000) (shortlisted for the 2001

) * ''An Oak Hunch'' (Brick Books, 2005) (shortlisted for the 2006 Canadian

) *''White Porcupine'' (BookThug, 2007) * ''The Little Seamstress'' (Pedlar Press, 2010) * ''Killdeer'' (BookThug, 2011) (winner, 2011

, Poetry; winner, 2012

; shortlisted for the 2012 Canadian

) * ''Le pluvier kilder'', translation by Rose Després.(Éditions Prise de parole, 2015) * ''The Small Nouns Crying Faith'' (BookThug, 2013) * ''Notes from Gethsemani'' (Nomados Press, 2014) * ''Guthrie Clothing: The Poetry of Phil Hall'' (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2015) * ''Conjugation'' (BookThug, 2016) * ''Niagara & Government'' (Pedlar Press, 2020) * ''Towards a Blacker Ardour'' (Beautiful Outlaw Press, 2021) * ''The Ash Bell'' (Beautiful Outlaw Press, 2022)

References

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